Thanksgiving

“In His time God makes everything beautiful” I don’t seem to remember where that verse is from in the Bible but all I know is that for a long time now it has really uplifted me. Most times especially when my faith has failed me, I have used it as a steering wheel because the fact is that God’s word stands true whether we believe it or not. Today, with exactly 60 days to go to the end of the year, I am looking at that verse with delight because things are indeed beautiful. I am not where I want to be but when I look back to the far God has brought me, I am grateful. At the start of this year, many preachers in Uganda especially of the born-again faith declared it as the year of God’s favor. This was based on the biblical principle of the jubilee celebration when debts were cancelled and people given a new start, for you see this year Uganda celebrated 50 years of independence. I embraced the catch words “the year of God’s favor” diligently and I was surprised with the power of the tongue especially as after a dismay start I seemed to be getting higher and higher and saw doors of opportunities open all at once that I was at crossroads at which was the best way to go. However half way into the year and my positive attitude that had inevitably equaled to blessings, one Sunday morning in July I received the news that my father had passed on. Without getting into the emotions that come with the passing of a parent all I can say is I struggled on with using my tongue to confess the truth I had started the year with, by proclaiming it was still the year of God’s favor. Other things have happened since then that for a minute have made me question this year of favor, really dark things but the light is stronger. This month the United States of America will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day, I wish we had one of those every day cause each day is something to be thankful for. I take now to say thank you Lord for all the blessings small and big, they have complimented me and made my life beautiful. I thank you that the future is in your hands, and above all that you have plans to prosper me and not to harm me. Above all I thank you that you are bigger than us and can make a way where there seems to be no way. I look forward to thanking you for everything but more so for where you have made the impossible possible and enabled people in our world to see that we serve a living mighty God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.